PRINTER'S NO. 1195
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
197
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY MURT, BAKER, BIZZARRO, CALTAGIRONE, D. COSTA, COX,
DiGIROLAMO, DUSH, FREEMAN, GILLEN, GOODMAN, HENNESSEY,
KINSEY, LONGIETTI, MARSICO, MILLARD, NEILSON, QUIGLEY,
READSHAW, RYAN, SONNEY AND WATSON, MARCH 31, 2017
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
MARCH 31, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Designating May 1, 2017, as "The Battle of the Crooked Billet
Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, During the American War of Independence at the time
of the Valley Forge encampment in 1777 and 1778, President
Thomas Wharton of the Pennsylvania Supreme Executive Council
commissioned Brigadier General John Lacey, the youngest general
in American history and a native of Bucks County, to lead the
Pennsylvania Militia in patrolling the countryside outside
Philadelphia; and
WHEREAS, General George Washington, commander in chief of the
Continental Army, charged Brigadier General John Lacey with the
mission of keeping the local inhabitants from selling supplies
to the British Army occupying Philadelphia and rerouting those
supplies to the Continental Army at Valley Forge; and
WHEREAS, Due to the success of the Pennsylvania Militia, the
British Army developed a plan to annihilate the Pennsylvania
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